AJaRuleStan
All Star
I'm sorry but this has been bothering me for days now and I initially didn't want to touch it, but am I the only one who sees zero significance in how hip hop heads of the early 2000s viewed Ja? Sure, if we are talking about the historical record, fine, the facts are the facts and they didn't fukk with him, but citing them as something that matters when determining anything about Ja's music quality is complete nonsense.
The nikkas that hated Ja are the same nikkas that thought It Was Written was sellout trash because he dared to be different. That's how they reasoned back then, music type was more important than music quality. Mase also got way more criticism than his music ever warranted, and LL cool J had to force out dishonest, generic street records between his pop/female hits just to save face with that audience. Its like if you stepped out of the grimy nikka archetype, just slightly, you were risking your entire career because the culture was that intolerant. Personally, fukk 'em, hip Hop heads from that era were some of the most close minded, anti-free thinking people that I ever came across. They were the livin npc meme.
They were also the reason why all the young Ny dudes that come up in the early 2000s where all 1-dimensional punchline rappers who couldn't make a song to save their life, dudes raised with the ideology that prevented them from stepping outside the box. Why you think the South over took us? Whole generation brainwashed into being anti-creative. Them real nikkas did more than kill Ja, they killed NY.
Also, we need to cut the bullshyt that just because hip hop heads didn't fukk with Ja, it some how means the black culture at large also didn't fukk with him, and in reality it was just white suburban kids. That's revisionist history, I didn't see dudes rocking half colored Du-rags, half afro/braids, and denim outfits hard until Ja came around. He was definitely influencing the culture on a level that was greater than trivial. Again, what fukked him over was not music quality, it was the fact that he constantly kept breaking taboos of the hip-hop head culture by choosing not to replicate the stereotypical NY sound.
The nikkas that hated Ja are the same nikkas that thought It Was Written was sellout trash because he dared to be different. That's how they reasoned back then, music type was more important than music quality. Mase also got way more criticism than his music ever warranted, and LL cool J had to force out dishonest, generic street records between his pop/female hits just to save face with that audience. Its like if you stepped out of the grimy nikka archetype, just slightly, you were risking your entire career because the culture was that intolerant. Personally, fukk 'em, hip Hop heads from that era were some of the most close minded, anti-free thinking people that I ever came across. They were the livin npc meme.
They were also the reason why all the young Ny dudes that come up in the early 2000s where all 1-dimensional punchline rappers who couldn't make a song to save their life, dudes raised with the ideology that prevented them from stepping outside the box. Why you think the South over took us? Whole generation brainwashed into being anti-creative. Them real nikkas did more than kill Ja, they killed NY.
Also, we need to cut the bullshyt that just because hip hop heads didn't fukk with Ja, it some how means the black culture at large also didn't fukk with him, and in reality it was just white suburban kids. That's revisionist history, I didn't see dudes rocking half colored Du-rags, half afro/braids, and denim outfits hard until Ja came around. He was definitely influencing the culture on a level that was greater than trivial. Again, what fukked him over was not music quality, it was the fact that he constantly kept breaking taboos of the hip-hop head culture by choosing not to replicate the stereotypical NY sound.
